Bridge to Never Land by Dave Barry EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Dave Barry
- Language: English
- Genre: Romantic Action & Adventure
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THE SECRET COMPARTMENT
AIDAN COOPER SPRINTED UP THE STAIRS. From behind he heard a voice,
choking with fury, shout, “I’m going to kill you!”
Aidan reached the second-floor hallway, crowded with antique end
tables and chairs, its walls covered in dark oil paintings. He heard footsteps
creaking up the stairs. He hurried down the hall and ducked into his father’s
study, closing the door as quietly as he could.
The footsteps reached the top of the stairs.
“You’re dead, you hear me!” called the voice. “Dead!”
The voice belonged to Aidan’s sister, Sarah. She was very unhappy
because Aidan had just swiped her iPhone, which he now clutched in his
hand.
He heard a door open and shut, then another. Sarah was checking the
upstairs rooms one at a time. Sarah was methodical. Her room was always
neat, her weekend homework done before Friday dinner. What worried
Aidan more was that she was also quite a good puncher, having taken six
years of karate.
“I’m going to find you, you little snot!” she said.
Aidan looked around frantically for a place to hide, his eyes lighting on
a massive oak desk. It was a new addition to the household; Aidan and
Sarah’s dad, a serious collector of Victorian furniture, had bought it recently
at an auction. Aidan dropped to his hands and knees and crawled into the
space where the chair was supposed to fit, between two walls of drawers.
Sitting cross-legged under the desk, he activated the iPhone screen and
opened the text messages. He scrolled quickly through them, looking for the
name of the girl he was deeply in love with, at least this week (Aidan fell
deeply in love a lot). She was a friend of Sarah’s, Amanda Flores. Like
Sarah, she was seventeen, and in eleventh grade. Aidan was only fifteen, a
lowly ninth-grader. He wasn’t dating Amanda; the truth was, he had never
actually spoken to her. But he had hopes.
These hopes had soared a few moments earlier when, reading over his
sister’s shoulder, Aidan had spotted a text from Amanda saying—at least this
was what Aidan thought it had said—that Amanda considered him cute. He
had tried to see more, but Sarah, annoyed at his spying, made the phone’s
screen go dark and told him to mind his own business.
So Aidan had snatched the phone and run upstairs. At the time it
seemed like a good idea, but now Aidan sensed that it might have been a
mistake. First, his sister was really mad. Second, as he scanned the iPhone
texts, he realized that Amanda had not been texting about him at all, but
about a boy named Aaron. Aidan didn’t know Aaron, but he was pretty sure
he hated him.
The study door burst open. Three seconds later, Sarah was crouched in
front of the desk, red-faced with anger.
“Give me my phone back right now,” she said, the palm of her hand
extended.
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